United Nations Office of Executive Whip and Parliamentary Secretary to the UNEC
The United Nations Office of Executive Whip (UNEW or UNWhip) is an administrative position created after the merger of UNDOT and UNRA.
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History
The Position of UN Executive Whip was created in 2035 after the merger of UNDOT and UNRA led to the potential of stalemated decisions. Kommando was the only applicant and was elevated to the position of Whip from UNIEB Deputy.
Archives
The UNEW is encouraged to improve the LP Wiki and keep pages up to date.
The UNEW position is to facilitate rational and considered decision-making rather than rash decision-making by ensuring the UNEC has access to the relevant information pertaining to an issue or debate. This will require the UNEW to search the forums and quote chain relevant posts when bringing an issue to the fore.
Whipping
The UNEWs primary role is to keep the UNEC on task and facilitate decision-making. At times with crisis being dealt with and certain topics taking dominance some issues can be forgotten. The UNEW is to keep track of these voting issues and bring them to the fore so they can be properly debated and decided on.
This can involve repeating or re-raising issues, tallying vote counts, messaging councillors to contribute to a debate or remind them to lodge a vote.
Unlike the role of a traditional Whip, the UNEW does not dispense discipline to the UNEC, merely reminds them of issues that are yet to be resolved.
Tiebreaker
In the event that a UNEC resolution ends with a tied vote the UNEW may cast a tiebreaking vote. The UNEW does not have a vote during normal proceedings and only may cast this vote if the event of an impasse that cannot be resolved by further debate.
The UNEW may call for further debate or allot extra time for developments to change minds, in this case a moratorium on the vote may be instated. Any councilmember, including the UNEW casting their tiebreaking vote, may end this moratorium period by casting a vote and ending the tie.
